the morons built in a backdoor password that always works.
Well, probably the people demanding copy protection were different than the people putting in the back door password. So they weren't morons, they just didn't care.
Why do they need rootkit-level protection on cheapo shovelware? That's what I want to know.
I was in Best Buy the other day to buy a phone triplexer. So, I saw that they had "Treasures of Midway" for 20 bucks. I thought, 'Oh, Wizard of Wor, cool. [robot voice]Your bones will rot in the Caverns of Wor[/robot voice]. I had that for my Atari 800.' Bring it home, start the install, StarForce horror show starts...
So, now I have a $20.00 coaster because Best Buy won't take returns of open software. I can't even give it away because I feel compelled to tell anyone who I'm trying to give it to why I don't want it. (Most people I know will call me for tech support on their computer anyway, so even if I was unscrupulous I'd gain nothing by giving it away.)
I hate the woman. Ditto for Joe Lieberman. (Mega-Dittoes to Joe Lieberman.... heh... heh... heh...)
I don't think Lieberman (or any government official) is for fascist measures because they are cowards (though cowards they may be). I think they are after power, and they mean to get it, and 9/11 was a gift from God to them.
By the way, I don't think your post is off-topic at all. This is all about Hillary and Joe, I wouldn't be surprised if he was her running mate or Secretary of Defense or something. This anti-video game legislation just one part of a tapestry of misery they will weave in office.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that the people leading the fight to ban GTA (Hillary Clinton and Joseph Lieberman) are part of an organization, the Democratic Leadership Council, that was set up with money generated by the Lansky Mob?
The DLC was--and is--a creature of New York high roller Michael Steinhardt, son of Sol Steinhardt, a jewel fence for the Meyer Lansky mob. Like most of organized crime, Steinhardt fils decided to go upmarket and merge with Wall Street. His millions created the Hon. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT).
-- Werther: The Whig Interpretation of Recent History
The Subcommittee To Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, pursuant to authorization in Senate Resolution 89, 83d Congress, 1st session, and Senate Resolution 190 of the 2s session of said Congress, has been making a "full and complete study of juvenile delinquency in the United States," including its "extent and character" and "its causes and contributing factors." In addition to a number of community hearings that have been held in major cities, the subcommuttee has undertaken studies of various special problems affecting juvenile delinquency.
Over a period of several months the subcommitee has received a vast amount of mail from parents expressing concern regarding the possible deleterious effect upon their children of certain of the media of mass communication. This led to an inquiry into the possible relationship to juvenile delinquency of these media.
Members of the subcommittee have emphatically stated at public hearings that freedom of speech and freedom of the press are not at issue. They are fully aware of the long, hard, bitter fight that has been waged through the ages to achieve and maintain those freedoms. They agree that these freedoms, as well as other freedoms in the Bill of Rights, must not be abrogated.
The subcommittee has no proposal for censorship. It moved into the mass media phase of its investigations with no preconceived opinions in regard to the possible need for new legislation.
Consistent with this position, it is firmly believed that the public is entitled to be fully informed on all aspects of this matter and to know all the facts. It was the consensus that the need existed for a thorough, objective investigation to determine whether, as has been alleged, certian types of mass communication media are to be reckoned with as contributing to the country's alarming rise in juvenile delinquency. These include: "crime and horror" comic books and other types of printed matter; the radio, television, and motion pictures.
In its investigations of mass media, as in its investigation of other phases of the total problem, the subcommittee has not been searching for "one cause." Delinquency is the product of many related causal factors. But it can scarcely be questioned that the impact of these media does constitue a significant factor in the total problem.
Juvenile delinquency in America today must be viewed in the framework of the total comminuty-climate in which children live. Certainly, none of the children who get into trouble live in a social vacuum. One of the most significant changes of the past quarter century has been the wide diffusion of the printed word, particularly in certain periodicals, plus the phenominal growth of radio and television audiences.
The child today in the process of growing up is constantly exposed to sights and sounds of a kind and quality undreamed of in previous generations. As these sights and saounds can be a powerful force for good, so too can they be a powerfu
Well, it's a really good book... it's been a while since I read it too:
'Girl number twenty,' said the gentleman, smiling in the calm
strength of knowledge.
Sissy blushed, and stood up.
'So you would carpet your room - or your husband's room, if you
were a grown woman, and had a husband - with representations of
flowers, would you?' said the gentleman. 'Why would you?'
'If you please, sir, I am very fond of flowers,' returned the girl.
'And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and
have people walking over them with heavy boots?'
'It wouldn't hurt them, sir. They wouldn't crush and wither, if
you please, sir. They would be the pictures of what was very
pretty and pleasant, and I would fancy - '
'Ay, ay, ay! But you mustn't fancy,' cried the gentleman, quite
elated by coming so happily to his point. 'That's it! You are
never to fancy.'
'You are not, Cecilia Jupe,' Thomas Gradgrind solemnly repeated,
'to do anything of that kind.'
'Fact, fact, fact!' said the gentleman. And 'Fact, fact, fact!'
repeated Thomas Gradgrind.
'You are to be in all things regulated and governed,' said the
gentleman, 'by fact. We hope to have, before long, a board of
fact, composed of commissioners of fact, who will force the people
to be a people of fact, and of nothing but fact. You must discard
the word Fancy altogether. You have nothing to do with it. You
are not to have, in any object of use or ornament, what would be a
contradiction in fact. You don't walk upon flowers in fact; you
cannot be allowed to walk upon flowers in carpets. You don't find
that foreign birds and butterflies come and perch upon your
crockery; you cannot be permitted to paint foreign birds and
butterflies upon your crockery. You never meet with quadrupeds
going up and down walls; you must not have quadrupeds represented
upon walls. You must use,' said the gentleman, 'for all these
purposes, combinations and modifications (in primary colours) of
mathematical figures which are susceptible of proof and
demonstration. This is the new discovery. This is fact. This is
taste.'
"And as an institution degenerates, so do the attitudes and habits of the people who run it. Investors, for example, come to think that they want companies to deliver 'shareholder value' - and deliver it right away. They want the easy money, the fast money. So, they only care about quarterly results and what happens to the share price. That's what those financial news programs on TV are all about. They report the latest quarterly results and then, they watch investors' reactions. If a company doesn't come up with good numbers, investors dump it. Is that capitalism? Well, maybe, but it's of a particular sort. It's a kind of casino capitalism where everyone hopes to get rich, but not by genuine work, investment or innovation.
"The managers - who are rarely real capitalists or real entrepreneurs themselves - have the same attitude. They want to get as much as they can out of the business for themselves and then move on. So, it's no wonder that no one wants to make the hard, long-term investments necessary in order to compete in the auto business. Everybody just wants something for nothing...as soon as possible. The unions want their health and retirement benefits. The executives want their golden parachutes. Investors want the share price to rise. Who really cares about the auto business? So, everyone borrows, spends, refinances; they watch stock prices and want to know how much the house down the street sold for. Save money? Invest for the long term? They wouldn't dream of it.
"And it gets worse. Gradually, the whole society becomes more and more corrupt - everyone has to lie and delude him or herself in order to keep up pretenses."
-- Something Wicked This Way Comes -- Bill Bonner
Well, that's probably true but then my impression of the American gaming industry is that it is a Hell-hole in general. I wouldn't be looking for enlightened attitudes from it.
I'm a man, a programmer and I love games (both tabletop and video), and I wouldn't touch the American gaming industry with a ten foot clown pole.
Which is really a shame. Of course, I have no idea about the gaming industry in other countries, like Japan (I did find that one article).
Whenever I hear someone quoting from a psychologist, I reach for my gun. Ok, not really, it'd be tough since I don't own a gun. (I know I should, but I'm broke, and it doesn't help that I just bought some Crime SuspenseStories annuals on eBay...)
But really, what was the high point for the American Child Psychology establishment? It was the early 1950's Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Deliquency hearings, that managed to completely ruin (in a financial sense) and censor American comics. American comics have never recovered despite the best efforts of people like Alan Moore.
Think about how great it must feel if you are a sick and evil minded child psychologist, living with the haunting fear that somewhere, somehow, some child might be having fun, to crush an entire emerging industry. They are just trying to recapture their glory days of being able to destroy a popular, vibrant subculture with a word. Their patron saint, Dr. Frederick Wertham, smiles up at them from Hell every time they manage to get one of these pieces of legislation passed.
Think of Super Mario jumped on mushrooms and they turned into happy angels instead of dead pancakes?
Hey, that's a rip off on Sonic the Hedgehog!
I remember when I first showed my cousin the original Sonic the Hedgehog and the way that the robots turned into happy little animals when you jumped on them. (Freed from the evil Dr. Robotnik's roboticizing process). He was quite sickened by it, said something about "drowning in saccharine."
Well, none of these companies have privacy and security as their hook. Hushmail does. So, if you want privacy, they're free. As long as you remain suffieciently paranoid (is there any such thing as too much paranoia? Not by my lights!), it adds another layer of security.
Of course, it has a much more cumbersome UI than those others, but that's a trade off.
Yes, this is right, I always consider the difference between Democrats and Republicans to be:
1. Democrats, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove
2. Republicans, Iron Fist in Iron Glove. With spikes on it. But hey, it looks cool and macho.
Arguments between Democrats and Republicans really boil down to the discussion in that Death Star boardroom after Governor Tarkin announced that the Senate had been dissolved and one of the officers asked, "how will we keep the local systems in line without the rubber stamp," and Tarkin replied, "fear will keep the local systems in line: fear of this station."
However, I will note that there are a few pro-liberty Republicans still in power. The obvious one is "Dr. No," Representative Ron Paul. I really need to compile a list. Yes, I expect it will be a short list...
Well, mauve is the color indicator that there is going to be a mind-flayer attack! Believe me, you don't want to see mauve coming up on the old monitor!
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I was in Best Buy the other day to buy a phone triplexer. So, I saw that they had "Treasures of Midway" for 20 bucks. I thought, 'Oh, Wizard of Wor, cool. [robot voice]Your bones will rot in the Caverns of Wor[/robot voice]. I had that for my Atari 800.' Bring it home, start the install, StarForce horror show starts...
So, now I have a $20.00 coaster because Best Buy won't take returns of open software. I can't even give it away because I feel compelled to tell anyone who I'm trying to give it to why I don't want it. (Most people I know will call me for tech support on their computer anyway, so even if I was unscrupulous I'd gain nothing by giving it away.)
She's horrible on all the issues I care about.
She's in favor of that quagmire in Iraq
In favor of getting us into a losing war with Iran
Pro-Patriot Act(and probably brewing her own "improved" version in her cauldron as we speak)
anti-immigration
pro-banning video games...
I hate the woman. Ditto for Joe Lieberman. (Mega-Dittoes to Joe Lieberman.... heh... heh... heh...)
I don't think Lieberman (or any government official) is for fascist measures because they are cowards (though cowards they may be). I think they are after power, and they mean to get it, and 9/11 was a gift from God to them.
By the way, I don't think your post is off-topic at all. This is all about Hillary and Joe, I wouldn't be surprised if he was her running mate or Secretary of Defense or something. This anti-video game legislation just one part of a tapestry of misery they will weave in office.
This is very reminiscent of The The Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, which was set up in order to find something wrong with comic books in order to ban them.
You know, you sound just like Wesley Mouch. Or maybe Ellsworth Toohey.
Well, I just bought that (UK Import, DVD Edition) based on your recommendation...
I'm a man, a programmer and I love games (both tabletop and video), and I wouldn't touch the American gaming industry with a ten foot clown pole.
Which is really a shame. Of course, I have no idea about the gaming industry in other countries, like Japan (I did find that one article).
You should create a Web page with your version of the story.
The bullet catch is actually a classic trick, and very dangerous.
I don't think the gp is being honest, I think he is a troll. Look at how he manages to combine sex and violence in his very user name!
But really, what was the high point for the American Child Psychology establishment? It was the early 1950's Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Deliquency hearings, that managed to completely ruin (in a financial sense) and censor American comics. American comics have never recovered despite the best efforts of people like Alan Moore.
Think about how great it must feel if you are a sick and evil minded child psychologist, living with the haunting fear that somewhere, somehow, some child might be having fun, to crush an entire emerging industry. They are just trying to recapture their glory days of being able to destroy a popular, vibrant subculture with a word. Their patron saint, Dr. Frederick Wertham, smiles up at them from Hell every time they manage to get one of these pieces of legislation passed.
I remember when I first showed my cousin the original Sonic the Hedgehog and the way that the robots turned into happy little animals when you jumped on them. (Freed from the evil Dr. Robotnik's roboticizing process). He was quite sickened by it, said something about "drowning in saccharine."
Of course, it has a much more cumbersome UI than those others, but that's a trade off.
1. Democrats, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove
2. Republicans, Iron Fist in Iron Glove. With spikes on it. But hey, it looks cool and macho.
Arguments between Democrats and Republicans really boil down to the discussion in that Death Star boardroom after Governor Tarkin announced that the Senate had been dissolved and one of the officers asked, "how will we keep the local systems in line without the rubber stamp," and Tarkin replied, "fear will keep the local systems in line: fear of this station."
However, I will note that there are a few pro-liberty Republicans still in power. The obvious one is "Dr. No," Representative Ron Paul. I really need to compile a list. Yes, I expect it will be a short list...
Well, mauve is the color indicator that there is going to be a mind-flayer attack! Believe me, you don't want to see mauve coming up on the old monitor!
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There aren't very many GTA's out there, and that's not about rating either. Attempts to imitate GTA in the "gritty, urban" style tend to fail badly.
What if it had a Simpson's or South Park license?
It isn't real, it never happened!
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I imagine life as a Mormon is tough for him...